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tical Boolety of Great Britain was founded by the Durs of ARGYLE and others in 1866, and in the year that followed the motion of binds in relation to aeronautics was much discussed, In England, in Germany, and in the United States during the past sixty years, mon have been working at the problem
CO. with dogged perseverance and firm faith in ultimate truimphs faith which remained unshaken by a long puccession of disappoint mants and defeats, to be at length justified in the past two years by the wonderful achievements of Count ZEPPELIN and the brothers WEIGHT-achievements WINE AND SPIRIT. MERCHANTS which have compelled the entire world to recognise that the airship is destined to be It will of practical use in the world. doubtless hea long time yet before airships take the place of steamships-a long time before we shall see airships as in the poet's vision, "dropping down with costly bales" at the world's centres of commerce; but when we read in the Home papers of preparations being made for regular airship services between Zurich and Lucerne, and between
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Two Russians were brought before M. TELEGRAMS. THE CANTON SELF-GOVERN- Haseland at the Magistracy yesterday on charge of being vagrants, They stated that they had applied to the Russian Consul, but that he had refused to assist them. They were sent to the Home of Detention.
By the Stamp Ordinance which passed its
second reading and went through the committes
stage at the Legislative Council yesterday it will be necessary after the first of January next to allx & ive cent stamp to all receipts for amounts over ten dollars.
In the report of the Captain Suparintendent of Palice for last year the conduct of the European contingent of the force is described as very good, that of the Indian contingent as being on the whole good, and that of the Chinese contingent as being fair.
Captain H. Mathews, of the a.. Hupeh, reports to the pollos that some person entored his house at 73, Caine Road on Wednesday morning by an open window and stole a brass clock with barometer valued at 850, together witli a sonskade and an umbrella, which brought the total value up to $56,
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YOKOHAMA'S JUBILEE.
THE FATSHAN" AFFAIR. Our Canton correspondent writes: The Self-Government Association, having recaived no reply to the letter addressed to the Portu. guese Consul on the 17th Jane, held another meeting at the Wah Lum Tomple yesterday. (June 29th) to discuss what further steps should be takon in the matter. Thousands of people Chan Chung Kwiu yas attended the meeting.
SUPREME COURT.
Thursday, July 1st.
IN APPELLATE JURISDICTION.
[BEFORE THE FULL COURT.]
A COMPRADORE'S LIABILITIES,
The appeal was continued against the decision
TOKYO, July 1st. The Jubilee of the opening of Yokohama to foreign trade is being invited to take the chair and Chan Wai Po of the Chief Justion in the notion in which Mesars, alected Vice-Chairtion. The proceed. J. David and Co. proceeded against their celebrated to-day, the Foreign Ambas-ings opened with short speeches by the compradore, Chan Ut Chin, to recover 8648,816. sadors being present.
THE BRITISH MEDITER- RANEAN FLEET.
LONDON, July 1st. Sir Edward Grey, answering question put to him in the House Commons, said the Admiralty and the Foreign Office had fully discussed the advisability of withdrawing the
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the 17th Jusa, after which the Chairman rose and
Moser, D. MacNeil and C. G. Alabaster, Vice-Chairman; Messrs. Woo Sbum Ching" Ng Koon Ting, and Tain Sham Po, commenting instructed by Messrs. H. J. Godgy and A. Jack- on the "unreasonable and ancivilized attitude of sov (of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master), the Portagues Consal in connection with the appeared for the appellants (plaintiffs), while Fatshan, case, and also on the high handed Hon. Sir Henry Berkeley, K.C., and Mr. M. W. measures taken by the Portagiese in the Slade, instructed by Mr. J. Scott Harston (of appropriation of certain places near Mae which Messrs. Ewens and Herston), represented the were Chinese territory. Lo Show Ngo, Beorot-defendants. aary of the Association, read the letter addressed
Mr. Blade, opntinuing his argument, went in detail through the mortgago and the agreement. of to the Portuguese Consul on.
addressed the audience. He said that the From the recitals in the mortgage, he said, his meeting was convened to discuss and obtain the learned friend deduced aur obligation on the what steps should be taken up tires subjects. the conditions set out in the proviso for redem
tion. He submitted that not only would those opinion of the members of the Association as to compradore, prior to the mortgage, to perform
ately and wonki ask them at the conclusion of his speech to give their opinions as to what measures of retaliation they should adopt. I do act proposa to give a fall report of the Chair man's speech, as it would take up too much space in your valuable columns, but only give you the main points of the speech in regard to each subject and the decision of the meeting.
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Attention is directed to an advertisement in another cabin of a performanos which takes place to-morrow evening at the Portuguese earthquake in Portugal. Ofcers and men of It will be noticed that TENTHON has given the Vasco da Gama are giving the performance, first place to the commercial use of the air-which it is hoped will result in a substantial ship, but in the materinifsation of the vision contrim tion to the relief fund. it seems that the military uses of the sir ship are claiming first attention. Except, however, for the purposes of observation in war, the airship with its present limitations is of Ittle use when the combatants in the field are on a fairly equal footing as regards equipment in the scientific instruments of war. We have been bearing much of the value of the airship capable of being em-
Friction has arisen between a number of Chinees exporters in Hongkong and the Pacific Mall Steamship Company over a notice in the latter office which was offensive to the Chinese And over alleged -treatment of Chinese passengers. A boycott was threatened, if not etually commenced, but the matters at issue are likely to be satisfactory arranged.
Mr. J. B. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday:
ployed to drop explozives into an enemy's vestigated charge of murder preferred agafurto Chinees from Yaumati. It appeared territory, but no scouer was this idea that a fortnight ago a quarrel took place at a suggested than the scientific spirit of the brothel at Yaumati and one man was stabbed in age was shown in the production of plans to the hip. He went away without complaint, but We read of a few days later he died from blood poisoning combat this new danger. armoured automobiles itted with Hotchkiss and the man who inflicted the wound was 'ar- guns so mounted as to be easily trained onrusted and charged. an airship, which it appears must come within vertical distance of not more than
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TENNYSON
Ir is somewhere about sixty years ago that wrote. "Locksley Hall," in which the following lines occur:----
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever
r-aping something now; That which they have done but earnest of
the things that they shall do;
For I dipt into the future, far as human
eye could see
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder
that would be;
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies
of magic mile,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping
pondents of "airy navies grappling in the central blue."
The airship is yet in its infauoy; much yet remains to be done to give the world confidence in its employment for purposes other than observation in time- of war. Count ZEPPELIN'S recent voyage of nearly a thousand miles continuous travel ling was at once a triumph and a disaster, for not only did the strength of a contrary wing compel him to turn back when within seventy miles of his goal, but in descending in order to obtain a fresh supply of fuel the ship was practically wrecked by coming in contact with a tree. In this scientific age we inay reasobably hope that constant effort will eventuate in the discovery of more reliable steering gear, if not in improvements in the structure of the ship itself, which will
According to the report of the Captain.
Superintendent of Police, there was a decrease in the number of cases reported to the police last year as compared with the previous year. There was, however, an increase in the number murders, robberies, larcenies from the dwell-
of
ing, and kidnapping cases, but fortunately this still leaves a decrease of 64 in the number of:
serious offences.
The snual report of the Standard Life Assurance Company for 1908 is now to hand. It shows that the Company continues to make satisfactory progress and maintains its position in the front rank of British life offices. The ratio of expenses and commission to total premium income again shows a slight reduction, and the report indicates a substantial increase has been made to the Company fund. Mr. F. L. Trevor is the secretary of the Shanghai office.
Fleet for mandenvres off the coast of Scotland. There was nothing in the |political situation of the Mediterranean to make it necessary to alter the arrangements which have been made.
BRITISH REVENUE.
A TURN IN THE TIDE.
LONDON, July 1st. The revenue for the past quarter shows an increase of £1,382,005.
THE FINANCE BILL.
LONDON, July 1st. The House of Commons has agreed to Clause 1 of the Finance Bill. The Closure was applied notwithstanding the protests of the Opposition.
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A GIGANTIC NAVAL. PROGRAMME.
SUGGESTED BY LORD CHARLES BERESFORD,
LONDON, July 18t. Lord Charles Beresford, addressing a meeting in the City, said he was compelled to reticence regarding the past and pending findings of the Com- At the Magistrany yesterday a Chinese mittee of Inquiry into the State of the formerly in the employ of Mr. S. B. Ross, in the New Territory, was committed to prison on Navy, but he urged the addition to two charges of obtaining money by false pre- the existing programme of naval con- tences. The second charge was that he went to struction by 1914 often Dreadnoughts, the sisters of the houseboy employed by Mr. J.
Wood and stated that he had been arrested sixty cruisers and fifty-two destroyers, for gambling and that money was needed to have at a cost of from fifty-five to sixty
Ons sister having no million pounds sterling. him liberated on bail. money gave him three gold rings. Prisoner was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on each charge and also to be exposed in the stocks for six hours.
MARSEILLES STRIKE RENEWED,
LONDON, July. lat. The shipping strike at Marseilles
that
it
solutely negatived any suggestion of the kind.
is learned friend argued that it was apparent from those words that there had been prior negotiation between the parties which had re salted in an agreement, and that the agreement must have been that the compradore would perform his duties. What these duties wore, were to be found in writing set out First, with regard to the Fatihan caso
In the ia the proviso for redemption, the Chairman said they werd all aware
firet place, with regard to that argument, had been conclusively proved
Counsel submitted that where negotiation hud that Noronha kicked a man to death on board resulted in an agreement in writing, the Court this steamer, and also how he had ill-treated could not consider what verbal agreement had Chinees passengers. It was also clearly show been arrived at, but could only consider the in the case how caraless the Captain was and how he had endeavoured to protect Noronha agreement in writing. There were two agree- ments in writing in this case, one was called The Portagnano Consul had not only refused to hold a fresh joint investigation into the matter, the mortgage and the other the agreement, bui bat had made sil kinds of false accusations both might be described generically as against the Society in connection with this contracts. The agreement between the partion affair. A letter had been addressed to the having been reduced to writing, the Court not to sub- consider any antecedent agreement. He submit- Portuguese Consul requesting him stantinto the statements made by him withinted the agreements in writing were plain: pledge of the three days, but so far he had not been There was the mortgage as a able to find words to reply to the letter. This man's property and the subsequent agreement alone showed clearly that he regretted having as to personal services. The conditions upon made those statements. The Chairman said which the mortgages agreed to comply with the redress should be obtained for the above griov- requests were stated perfectly plainly and un- auces and be asked them to consider what steps ambiguously. He agreed to comply with the requests upon the compradore entering into, should be taken.
first of all, a mortgaga, and secondly, an agree. ment; or to put it in other words, upon first of all pledging his property and then entering inte a personal contract...
The audience answered that the Association should address another letter to the Consul giving him farther time to reply, and if uc an swer is received on due date the Association should inform their brethren both in China and abroad as to what had happened. The Association should also send a telegram to the Central Government requesting them "not to recogulse
endowed with reason," and also requesting that the Portuguese Consul as an administrator redress be obtained in this matter,
BOYCOTTING MACAO. The Chairman's second topic was that prostitution, gambling nod opium-smoking
are evils which the people of any self Macau, he went on to say, was one of the principal governing nation should interfere with
Mr Mauvet-remen the compratore nad agreed to do."
Mr. Blade Which the compradore had agreel to do. Head into these two transactions so that on the face of the recital of the mortgage at the time when the mortgage was entered into he had not antered into the personal contract contained in the agreement, and it was not intend- ed that heshould have. It was intended distinctly that that should be afterwards the intention of the parties so that the firm, through their partner
the mortgages, should have a pledge of the the compradorees; compradors. There was property before they obtained the services of where pirates and robbers and refuge, mother reason beyond the words of the recitala and its also a resort for prostitution,why the Court could not possibly constras the the members of this Association warned if there was ons, mid that was, that the terms gambling and opium.moking. Boletime ago previous negotiations and the verbal agreement, their brethren to restrain the younger of it were specified in the agreement in writing; brothers and sons from plunging into these and from the agreement in writing it was evil babits and to prohibit them from furtively obvious that the agreement was not to be going over to Maose to gamble and smoke performed within one year it was for a term oplam; thus, ruining their ropatation and of three years. Any karbal agreement not to injuring their health. Now that the Macao be performed in one year, and not evidenced in boundary was being threshed out, measures should be taken to protect the Chinese people writing, was a vold agreement under the Sistate
save these machines from such disasters, which number has since been reduced by 175. has been renewed owing to the ship-from being beaten and disgraced by the of Frands. A prior date could not be given to
we cannot so confidently anticipate that each ships will be made to "tear through the gale." Yet, in face of the achievements of recent years, who now will dare affirm that the employment of the airship for commer. cial purposes is destined ever to remain Who thought sixty years ago when TENNYSON published Locksley Hall that before the first decade of the Twentieth Century is out we should have airships navigated in "the central blue" for a thousand miles; that passenger services in airshipe would be
an idle dream ?
It is interesting to note from the report of the Captain Fuperintendent of Police that 1,175 ricshaws were licensed in Hongkong during 1908, In Quarry Roy there are 50 licensed ricshave and 250 in Kowloon. Chairs to the number of 589 were consed in Hongkong and 60 in the Hill district. Licences were issued last year for 25 private vehicles, including five motor cars, while 1118. truck Hoonces were also issued. Drivers and bearers licensate the number of 17,350 were isgned. As many as 1,760 dogs were licensed last year.
An aming discussion took place at the
Mr. Hazeland wished to know if P.S.. Magistracy yesterday over the pronounmation of
name. Brazil pronounced his name Bras-il, and when
owners refusing to discharge the scratch crews.
The Government has appointed an Arbitration Committee to endeavour to settle the dispute.
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an agreement in writing than that which was Portuguesa
The audience was naked by the Chairman shown on the face of it, and in the agreement. in writing referred to, it was specifically stated, to anggest means of protection, ets. They that it was entered into after the mortgage.
The hearing wae adjourned. auswered: that a passed warning people
resolution should bo not to go to
THE NEW TERRITORIES...
The District Officer for the New Territories
Heard the heavens fil with shouting and instituted; and that the military depart. the ofcer indicated replied that he pronounced late, been current on the Bluff to the effort that exhorting the publio to refrain from going removal of An The Station was at once followed
-down with costly bales.
thera raind a ghastly dow
From the ratione airy navies grappling
in the central blue.
As far back as 1800 experiments in
trge, that the Portuguese people have insulted to gamble. They declared it to be
and besten the Chinese people in a most dis- graceful manner auch things were often keard of. The Association should at once A YOKOHAMA GHOST STORY.
extensively distribute direnlars and ales delegate THE POLICEMEN AND THE OLIAN HARE.
large numbers of deputies to proceed up-country reports as follow Serious crime is less then to give lectures and make public speeches over, and the presence of the police is now understood and appreciated. The rumour of the According to the Kokumin, a rumour has, of
to Macao.
Then the Macao boundary question was by a number of influential petitions for its it Brazil (Brazil), his Worship was apparently a ghost makes its appearance in the foreign cemetery every night, and a sensation prevailed ment of almost every nation in the world not satisfied with this, for he appealed to Mr. among Japanose who always pass the road along dealt with by the Chairman. There was no retention. Mira Bay alone has given much.. would be regarding the airship as an
Jackson to any whether the name was Irish or the cemetary connecting Motomachi and the doubt, he said, the old boundary line of the trouble, but the enforcement of Sextion 29 of indispensable item in the equipment of a not. &c. Jackson confessed to ignorance on Bluff: Consequently, the Bluff police in Macao Connession was still in existance. It the Local Communities Ordinance in Ping
two policemen to
boxes belonging to both the Portuguese encroached on Uhinese territory, this troublesome district into order. This nesrest police stations. While waiting for the apper This fact www.known to both foreigners and section of the Ordinance was also applied to ance of the alleged ghost late on the night of the 15th, the two policemen actually noticed a Chinese. The Portuguese had infringed the Sheung Shin, but the conditions in this case strange object, apparently moving about and Treaty and the Chinese must protect their were not so much those of serious crime as of defiance of the police. The effect of the ap making a curious noise somewhere in the air rights. above the cemetery. The policemen were Yeong Yew Tong rose to reply on behalf of plication has, I think, been excellent, as showing The water polo season opens today, when the astonished for
inspended from a window of the American all agreed upon sending telegrams to the an effective weapon for dealing with conspiracy Lusitano Recreation Club meet the 83rd Co. the strange object they found that it was the audience. He said in this matter they were the villagers that the Government does possess R. G. A. at the V, R. G. at six pr. The Laval Hospital across the telephone line. As Chinese people both in China and abroad to be and passive resistance. The co-operation of the R. Chieam will be. J.V. Ribeiro, J. M. C. a realt of enquiries at the hospital the alleged frm in the maintenance of their rights. And Chinese officials over the border has also been Lopes, F. L. da Roza, C. M. B. Alves, E. M. C. "ghost" was discovered to be a cardboard box,
artificial flight were made in England, but army? Who dreamt that we should be the subject, and then Mr. Hazeland asked the co-operation with the Settlement police, was only.lin the 13th year of Kwong Shui that Chau Island has done uelitowards bringing
able to communicate for thousands of milea the prophetic lines, we have quoted were
across the ocean by wireless telegraphy? apparently written before the first flying Truly, it's a wonderful age we live in, and machine had been brought to public notice the Foat TENNYSON as a prophet will be no for Locksley Ha!" was published in longer without honour in his own country, 1842, while the frst. flying machine was invented, according to the reference books, In 1843. Its end, we meal scarcely add, was -pieces! But, as a famous French writer
The Third Cricket Tast Match takes place at Leeds to day.
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inst year the value of $19,043. The articles recovered were valued at $6,898.59.
officer-Aren't you an Irishman "The sergeant answered in the affirmative, but the matter was
carried any further.
WATER POLO.
Gazette.
the
from the
watching while, but carefully ก
Mr. B. G. Tours, of H.B.M.'s Consular service,
au Bolian harp by a bluejacket under medical and abroad to get the merchants afix their chope China no longer offers an asylumn to the criminal has told us, iu the lexicon of youth which who has been home on leave, has just teken Remedios, C. A. C.-Rodrignus, and R. Aabout two feet long, which had been fixed up as also that deputies should proceed up-country of the greatest value to ne, and the feeling that fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is charge of the Consulate at Amoy.
Carvalho, For sometime past players in the treatment there. The curious noise was made to a document protesting against the arbitrary is responsible in no small degree for the nins teams entered for the Shield have been by the rambling of the telephone line on a wire, no such word as Fail. Where there's al
Articles reported lost to the police aggregated hard at work getting into form, and some good by means of which the paper "karp" was measures taken by the Portuguese people in orderliness of the Territory." will there's a way," and TENNYSON evidently
thus infringing the Treaty rights. They shared and was inspired by the eager
matches should be witnessed during the season, manipulated by its ingenions player-Japan annexing certain Chinese territories by forco, must guard their doors against aggression and The second match arranged, also to be played optimism of the few who were in those early
cease to have any intorcourse with such people.
This declaration was received with great days tackling the problem of serial flight. It was not, however, till twenty years later
partaking of refreshments the people dispersed, that the subject began to engage the serious
applause. This ended the meeting and after
attention of scientific men. The Aeronau-day withdrawn,
The Peak Tramway Ordinance is dead. The at the V.R.C., will take place on July 7th at 6 LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS Bill which has been before the Legislative p.m. between the Corinthian Yacht Club and Council for some time to authorise the con- the Boys' Own Club, and if the Foys are as to the Peak was yester. Emart in the water as they are on the football
feld, the game should be well worth seeing.
struction of a
tramway
The N.GL str. Capri loft Singapore for thin expected here on or about the 6th inst port on the let instant morning, and may be
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